Walmart Razor Blade Allegedly To Blame For Woman’s Injury

Texas resident Silver Taylor launched a premise liability lawsuit against department store behemoth Walmart after a wayward razor cut her hand — repeatedly. The dangerous blade was caught until a shopping cart. You think you’ve heard it all when Walmart is at the heart of a story, but then Taylor’s story comes out of nowhere.

Taylor said, “I had several cuts to my hands and at that point I had lost so much blood I lost consciousness. [I had] large lacerations on my hands. I also hit my head pretty hard and I fell hard on my back.”

One probably wonders whether or not this is a frivolous lawsuit. Pictures of the injury show what appears to be a number of small cuts with dried blood around them. What they certainly don’t show is a traumatic or life-threatening serious injury as the lawsuit or Taylor’s claims seem to imply. Premise liability certainly requires Walmart to pay for Taylor’s medical bills.

“I can’t do normal things,” she says. “So I feel helpless. I didn’t get to make Thanksgiving dinner. That’s not fair. It’s not fair.”

She also says the injuries have affected her ability to do simple tasks such as run errands for her children. “No, I’m not okay,” she continued. “I’m not okay at all. I feel like a failure to my children because I’m such a rock in my household. My tools are broken. My tools are injured. I’m a mom. I’m a wife and I can’t do the smallest things, like open up a refrigerator door.”

Taylor says a settlement in her premise liability lawsuit isn’t enough — she wants an apology. “I’d like an ‘I’m sorry,’” she said. “I’d like Walmart to not treat me as a blanket statement of all their other injuries that have happened in their stores. I’m a human being.”

According to Taylor’s attorney, Brad Wurster, hidden razor blades are a real problem in Walmart. “It’s not just one consumer or a few consumers,” he said. “This is a person that goes in that is a patron of their business and they need to be more proactive than reactive. Is it really going to have to take someone dying over this or a fatal wound before changes actually occur?”

It sounds almost like Wurster wants to put together a class-action razorblade lawsuit. Obviously, a razor blade lying around is a serious problem for Walmart. If a child had picked it up, then Wurster is right — someone could have been seriously injured or even passed away as a result. But Taylor’s claims of being totally helpless seem immensely embellished, based on the pictures.

Walmart spokespeople responded: “The safety of our customers and associates is always a top priority. We completed a thorough investigation and have been unable to substantiate Ms. Taylor’s claims.”